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Fantastic Fluency!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students participate in repeated readings of an assigned passage to increase their reading fluency. They are assisted in their reading by seeing the words and hearing them read while working with a partner. After practicing, they read...
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Cloze Passage - Singapore

For Students 5th - 7th
In this cloze worksheet, students complete a passage about the history of Singapore using 15 words from the bank at the top of the page.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 11

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) read a fictional selection, and (2) practice test-taking strategies. Reading passage, comprehension questions, and teacher script is included.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 13

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) read a fictional passage, (2) use context to define unfamiliar vocabulary, (3) use comprehension strategies, and (4) make inferences. Reading passage and teacher script is...
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 16

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) read a nonfiction selection, (2) identify the author's purpose, (3) distinguish informational text from narrative text, (4) skim and scan for facts, and (5) complete a graphic...
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Role Playing for Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the benefits of rereading a story to increase their oral reading speed, fluency, and comprehension. They work with a partner reading the story "What Will the Seal Eat?" They time and encourage each other in each...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Read

For Teachers K - 1st
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they read complete a timed...
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Ready...Set...Let's Read!!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students observe and demonstrate various reading decoding strategies to improve their reading fluency. In pairs, they take turns reading sentences outloud to each other, with the goal of reading them more quickly each time. Students...
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Up, Up, and Away With Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading strategies, young scholars to complete a timed assessment of their words read per minute and record their progress after...
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Growing Independence and Fluency Lesson: Ready, Set, Read Expressively!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice becoming more fluent readers with fluency by assessing one minute reads and repeated readings. They also practice reading silently and then read the book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,"...
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Flying High in the Reading Sky

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine the importance of reading with fluency and expression in this lesson. They listen as the teacher reads the book "What Will the Seal Eat" first smoothly and with expression, and then slow, choppy, and without expression....
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Nascar Reading

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to sentences read with fluency and without to determine which sounds better. Next, with a partner or in a small group they practice reading a book three times. Finally, as an assessment, they read the book while being...
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Speed Read

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading and rereading in order to increase their fluency with speed and accuracy. They review how to decode words and to reread selections so that they become more familiar with reading. Next, they read "James and the...
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Expression Makes Reading Exciting!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars examine how reading with expression makes stories more interesting by listening to a reading in monotone and one with expression. Reading in pairs, they practice with passages of Judith Voirst's, Alexander and the...
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Hit a Homerun with Reading Speed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review basic reading decoding/comprehension. They read passages and see how fast they can read the pages. In a baseball-like game, they try to read faster and faster. If they improve their fluency rate, they increase their...
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READY, SET, READ!!!

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners explain what it means to be a fluent reader and why it is an important part of learning to read. They become aware that fluency is a reader's ability to read words quickly, smoothly, and with emotions. Students pass out books...
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Ready, Set, Go! Fluency, Here We Come!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars work with a partner to become fluent readers. Each person gets the chance to be each role. One of them gets to be the listener while the other person gets to be the reader. The reader reads the book while the listener...
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Reading and Responding

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and respond to a poem. For this reading and responding lesson plan, 8th graders read a poem as a class and respond to questions about it.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 12

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) practice test taking strategies, (2) practice using story details, and (3) use critical thinking skills. Reading passage, comprehension questions, and teacher script are...
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Around the Bases with Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Guided Reading: Shapes Where We Play

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover shapes on a playground. In this guided reading lesson, students discover new vocabulary words related to shapes as they read Shapes Where We Play. In small groups, students use picture clues and one to one matching to...
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Ready and Action! Reading Time!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work to improve their reading fluency and oral expression while reading aloud. With a partner, they read sentence strips and reread them to make the sentence more fluent and meaningful. They 'perform' their sentences for the...
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Ready to Read? On your mark, get set, GO!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars read the same book several times in order to increase their reading fluency. Also, they use the silent cover-up method of decoding words. Working with a partner they practice the silent cover-up. Next, they complete...
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Reading: The Trans-Siberian Railway

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading for information worksheet, students read a passage about traveling from Moscow to Beijing on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Students answer 8 multiple choice questions.

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